Notes

The Shackleton Saga

1. Roland Huntford, Shackleton (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 365.

2. Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 2.

3. Stephen J. Pyne, The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (New York: Ballantine, 1988), pp. 4–5.

4. Distances related to the Shackleton expedition are measured in nautical miles (a nautical mile equals 1.15 statute miles).

5. Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), p. 23.

6. Shackleton, p. 4.

7. Ibid., p. 11.

8. Ibid., p. 34.

9. F. A. Worsley, Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999), p. 20.

10. Lansing, p. 60.

11. Ibid., p. 95.

12. Ibid., p. 116.

13. Ibid., p. 280. ...

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